AWS CloudFormation

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Flux7 is an AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery Partner

A key tool in our configuration management toolset, AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your AWS infrastructure. Reduce maintenance and improve security, consistency and developer self-service with our cloud configuration services.

A Few of The CloudFormation Services We Provide

CloudFormation Account Factory

Automation is created to ensure a new AWS Account is added to AWS Organization automatically so that a single account can be used as a best practice guideline for adding more accounts.

Security logging is centralized to the audit account so that analytics are available and forensics are not compromised in the event of a breach.

The account’s security is hardened to CIS Standards and guardrails in place via native AWS “Inspectors and Injectors” so that they have validated best-practice security reducing the risk of a breach via automation checking password levels and removing default VPCs from all regions in AWS.

CloudFormation VPC Factory

Ease maintenance and support developer self-provisioning with confidence.

Create a VPC Factory that automatically deploys and removes VPCs based on company standards so that Development Teams can self-provision an environment that complies with company guidelines.

Provide cross-account functionality so that environments & billing can be segregated across accounts.

CloudFormation AMI Factory

Speed deployment of application updates and reduce the risk of downtime with an automated process.

A transit router/service is deployed through automation so that a transit network can be set up quickly and in a consistent manner.

New VPCs created through the factory are registered into the transit network so that new VPCs are automatically added to transit network in a consistent manner.

Connectivity is established and continuously checked through alarms between on-premise to AWS and between AWS VPCs so that we can be alerted of connectivity issues in the environment between VPCs, on-premise, and internet.

IT automation for increased consistency and compliance. Talk to our specialists.

CloudFormation Resources

Welcoming The Release Of AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection

Infrastructure as Code has revolutionized how we manage infrastructure and AWS CloudFormation has played a foundational role in this process. As AWS Premier Consulting Partners, at Flux7 we have many customers using AWS CloudFormation to deploy their infrastructure. Yet, the benefits of AWS CloudFormation aren’t just about deploying, as it is instrumental in maintaining and providing future upgrades to their infrastructure.

A Review of AWS CloudFormation StackSets

At the AWS Summit in Chicago, Amazon introduced CloudFormation StackSets, a new feature to CloudFormation. As heavy users of AWS CloudFormation for implementing infrastructure as code in an automated, consistent way, we are dedicating today’s blog to reviewing the new CloudFormation StackSets. As proponents of DevOps automation,we are excited to see AWS automation extended through this new feature and will highlight how it can be applied through two specific uses cases.

First, however, let’s review. AWS CloudFormation enables users to create an infrastructure based on templates specified in YAML or JSON. Rather than setting up an environment manually, a CloudFormation template can be used to create all of the necessary resources. In addition to providing consistency, using automation reduces manual errors and increases efficiency.

AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation & Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery (CD) is a core facet of successful DevOps and as a result, a core Flux7 strategy for implementing DevOps-based IT modernization. At Flux7, we always view DevOps as streamlining the delivery of not just Code but also the delivery of Infrastructure (networking, firewalls, VMs), Server Configuration (software packages such as Apache or JAVA), and Security Rules (policies for AWS Config Rules or HashiCorp Vault). Among these, efficient delivery of infrastructure and configuration are both very critical for full-stack agility.

For our customers in AWS, our typical choice for infrastructure delivery is CloudFormation. We like AWS CloudFormation because it is native to AWS, follows a simple YAML or JSON syntax, and has deep integration with other AWS Services such as the AWS Service Catalog.